To: users,dev,announce
Subject: ANNOUNCE: Apache SpamAssassin 3.1.8 available!
Apache SpamAssassin 3.1.8 is now available! This is a maintenance and
security release of the 3.1.x branch. It is highly recommended that
people upgrade to this version.
Downloads are available from:
http://spamassassin.apache.org/downloads.cgi?update=200702131100
The release file will also be available via CPAN in the near future.
md5sum of archive files:
e8184a9a4ff11da5bd20b294cfeac7ac Mail-SpamAssassin-3.1.8.tar.bz2
20a3a6b651a89dcc70634715ca833996 Mail-SpamAssassin-3.1.8.tar.gz
c81ef93066e60353032c21991e3c9ae2 Mail-SpamAssassin-3.1.8.zip
sha1sum of archive files:
0d092c4de6e6df66f1d0fb0ca8589147ee4096cb Mail-SpamAssassin-3.1.8.tar.bz2
08f81f72d8a783887cf815dfc55ea38e3582b966 Mail-SpamAssassin-3.1.8.tar.gz
f172c47a896c3c78aacf21f2af99088bd53363d0 Mail-SpamAssassin-3.1.8.zip
The release files also have a .asc accompanying them. The file serves
as an external GPG signature for the given release file. The signing
key is available via the wwwkeys.pgp.net key server, as well as
http://spamassassin.apache.org/released/GPG-SIGNING-KEY
The key information is:
pub 1024D/265FA05B 2003-06-09 SpamAssassin Signing Key
Key fingerprint = 26C9 00A4 6DD4 0CD5 AD24 F6D7 DEE0 1987 265F A05B
3.1.8 is a major bug-fix release, including a potential DoS. The major
highlights are:
- bug 5318: fix for CVE-2007-0451: possible DoS due to incredibly
long URIs found in the message content.
- bug 5240: disable perl module usage in update channels unless
--allowplugins is specified
- bug 5288: files with names starting/ending in whitespace weren't usable
- bug 5056: remove Text::Wrap related code due to upstream issues
- bug 5145: update spamassassin and sa-learn to better deal with STDIN
- bug 5140 and 5179: improvements and bug fixes related to DomainKeys
and DKIM support
- several updates for Received header parsing
- several documentation updates and random taint-variable related issues
A more detailed change log can be read here:
http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/spamassassin/branches/3.1/Changes